The Anderson Scouts

So where do I get this new token and how much is it going to cost me and what do I do with it once I got it? And thanks to those that posted a question, found the answer but then didn't want to share that answer with the rest us.

Your counting is off or you are receiving duplicate notices, then. The number is 4412. Even when taking in the entire world, there have not been 9000 archivals in the past 4 days. Regardless, whether it's 4,412 caches or 9,000 caches it's still a significant number of caches that have disappeared.

Here is the e-mail response I got from the Assistant Director of Natural Resources Division: Dear Mr. Anderson: The Arizona State Land Department (Department) is responding to your telephone inquiry of April 22, 2014. The Department manages approximately 9.2 million acres of State owned Trust land within Arizona. This land was granted to the State of Arizona under the provisions of the federal Arizona New Mexico Enabling Act that provided for Arizona’s statehood in 1912. This land is held in Trust and managed to earn revenues for the State’s public schools (K-12) and 13 other public institutions (see attached). The Trust’s beneficiaries receive revenue from leasing, selling or using the State’s Trust land and its resources. Pursuant to law, all uses of Trust land must benefit the Trust. The Trust land is not managed for the general public’s use. While public use of the Trust land is not prohibited, use is regulated to comply with the State’s Enabling Act, the Arizona Constitution and state law to protect the land, its resources and to ensure compensation to the beneficiaries. All recreational uses of State land, other than hunting or fishing with a valid hunting or fishing license must be authorized by a recreational use permit issued by the Department. A Trust land Recreational Use Permit does not permit target shooting, paintball, airsoft, recreational flying, vehicular rock hopping, geocaching, sand railing, fireworks, or congregating in groups larger than 19 people. Visiting prehistoric and historic cultural or archaeological sites, metal detecting, collecting or removing natural products (rocks, stone, soil, fossils, mineral specimens, cacti, saguaro or cholla skeletons, plants (live or dead), or firewood for home use, are all prohibited. A Recreational Use Permit does not authorize use of non-state lands such as military, federal, tribal, or private lands. Recreational users are asked to take no natural products from the Trust land and leave no foreign objects. Activities involving disturbing the soil/cultural resources and traveling off existing trails and roads are prohibited. To be clear, per federal and state law, all uses of Trust land must be permitted and must benefit the Trust; a fact that distinguishes Trust land from public land, such as state or county parks or national forests. Parks, National Forests, and lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management are public lands and are managed as such. State Trust lands are not public lands. May we refer you to those lands where geocaching is permitted, i.e. land administered by the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Arizona State Parks. We appreciate your concerns and hope this answers your questions. Sincerely, John Schneeman, AICP, CFM Assistant Director Natural Resources Division Arizona State Land Department 1616 West Adams Phoenix, Arizona 85007

Just got off the phone with the Assistant Director of Natural Resources for the Arizona State Land Department. He said that the commissioner held a meeting recently in which it was reaffirmed that Geocaching is not allowed on State Trust Land. I think all us Geocachers need to band together an petition the Arizona State Land Department to reconsider Geocaching.

Does anyone know if anyone is working with or has attempted working with the Arizona State Land Department in order to resolve this issue? Also, does anyone know how many caches we lost statewide? By our count there were 998 within a 30 mile radius of our home that were archived.